From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 12 21:55:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA05295 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 21:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.186.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA05287 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 21:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06434; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 21:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 21:55:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Per Eegehauge cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FA summer camp: Bootmanager IDE/SCSI In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970712194157.0068ebbc@mail.image.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Per Eegehauge wrote: > I have a PC with an 200MB IDE disk. The IDE disk has an OS/2 bootmanager > that can switch between two partitions. I would like to keep the 3.11 > partition but I added a SCSI disk and a 1542 controller so that the > complete 2.2.2 could be installed. All the BSD is now on the SCSI disk. Any > good suggestions of how to use use the bootmanager? Should I install a boot > mgr. on both disks? You should be able to point the OS/2 Boot Manager at the new disk. Since this is IDE+SCSI setup, the FreeBSD bootblocks may get confused as to where the root partition is. If you're running a recent 2.2x or CURRENT, you should be able to manipulate /boot.conf to convince it otherwise. I don't know whether OS/2 FDISK will see the SCSI disk as 'disk 2' so you can set up the bootmanager properly. > I was stunned over the low tranfer rate between the IDE CD-rom and the SCSI > disk. The transfer rate of the ports collection: 3-5 kb/sec. It's a > 486/66mhz w. 16MB. Is that normal or do I/Niels have a bad SCSI controller? I think it's cheap IDE, that's all. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo